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(ALLESTREE, RICHARD).
The Ladies Calling. In Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, The Causes of Decay of Christian Piety, and The Gentlemans Calling.
Oxford Printed at the Theater 1673 Octavo. (xv), 246 pp. First edition. Engraved frontispiece. An apparently popular instruction manual for women that saw seven editions produced in the seventeenth century. Bound in contemporary black goat, elaborately tooled in gilt. The binding is not signed, but it appears to be the work of the Queen's Binder A. The text is toned throughout, with contemporary ownership signatures. Slight crack to front hinge and with minor restoration to edges. (Wing 1141).
- USD 1,500.00 > other currencies
- ordernr.: 20282
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